Identifying invasive plants is not always easy ... Birds love the vine’s black berries. At summer’s end the small, plump berries of sweetly-scented Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica ...

The leaves are oval, smooth and have a small notch in the tip. The leaf margins are wavy and supple. Flowers occur in the summer in clusters and produce single-seeded black berries in the fall.

For cooks of all stripes, however, the abundant berries produced by the plants offer a tremendous ... glance — both composed of a cluster of small black drupelets to form the "berry" — it's ...